“The day I turned off my computer screen. Simple, but highly effective.”

“The first time I recorded and sat down to mix in my newly acoustically treated room. Wow… first time I heard true seperation on my mixes.”

“How simply pulling out a little 300-350Hz on most close miked tracks can really make things sound more real and less muddy and boxy.”

“Subtractive EQ: get rid of freq’s instead of adding. How many times did I try to bring out a certain range, when it would have made much more sense in the big picture to take out what I didn’t want.”

“Discovering Figure-8, and also hearing a ribbon mic on a distorted guitar amp.”

“Avoiding ‘default’ presets — whilst presets and templates can be a time-saver some of the time, they can also be a crutch and a bad habit to get into.. better to listen then decide.”

“When I removed all plugins from the session and found out that digital can sound decent after all.”

“The first time I threw up a quick mix of the raw tracks instead of attempting to dial in “the perfect kick sound” etc on each track in an a la carte fashion. It cut my average mix time in half and increased overall quality.”

“Getting stuck in a mix, throwing down all the faders, trashing all inserts and sends, and bringing up the faders again. Wow.”